The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-25 00:00:00

Extra Parliamentary Utterances, ADDERLEY A - ND VISCOUNT INGESTRE. The Right Hon. C. B. Adderley and Viscount Ingestre, the members for North Staffordshire, at tended a soiree in aid of the Literary and Mechanics' Institution at Leek on Friday evening. Lord ,Engestre presided. Iri the course of his opening speech th© CHAIR MAN alluded to the fact of very few members of the working, classes appearing to be among the audience, which he regretted, because he thought it was of great importance that mechanics should have the benefit of institutions of that kind, The great ques tion of the present day in regard to such institu tions was how to combine instruction with amuse ment. He had the honour to belong to institutions called clubs, where the members had social inter course, the best libraries, and every sort of luxury, and he thought that kind of institutions should be extended, so as to become a counter attraction to the publichouse, and induce the working classes to avoid publiehouses, which he looked upon es grows ing evils. Hs should be the last man in the world to say that the working man should not have re freshment ; he liked a glass of wine himself, and he did not see why the poor man should not have his glass of beer; but he should like to see some means devised by which the workman could spend his evenings in a rational way, instead of sitting in publichouse. Ho could conceive that men who had been hard at work all day liked relaxation and to meet their friends in the evening, and he could not see why they should not do so, but the great thing was to teach the mechanic how to indulge in moderation. When they looked at the extraordi nary amount they paid for the punishment of crime and the maintenance of lunatic asylums, they might well feel surprised that the country should not take means to accomplish something in this respect. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer dared not look at the question, because he could not see how he could raise his revenue if he were to dispose of what proceeded from the sale of alcoholic drinks. Perhaps that subject he ought not to have touched upon on such an occasion, but when he came to a mechanics' institution, and did not see mechanics there, he could not help thinking that they were somewhere, and he could readily guess where. His lordship suggested singing classes, entertainments, and other modes of recreation as means of making institutions of that kind attractive to the working classes, and concluded by calling upon Mr. ADDERLEY, who, after some remarks on the position of the institution, said—To an institution like that what could he say worthy of its accept ance ? He certainly was not such a fool as to re commend an institution of that sort what it should do, or to tell it what its purposes were, for they knew better that he did what it contemplated. It seemed to him that many distinguished men who were asked to preside at meetings of mechanics' institutions wasted a good deal of time in recommending them to read this or that, to take up with a certain kind of literature, or to follow certain studies. He often doubted whether those distinguished advisers had ever followed those studies themselves. He was certain if those who were so addressed did their duty, if they followed an active business which took up the greater part of their time, they ought not to have time to carry out such recommendations. At the same time the practice ofter enabled them to hear amusing, clever, agreeable speeches, as, for exatnple, the speech of the Speaker of the House of Commons at the Mansfield Mechanic's Institution a clay or two since--a more able, sensible speech than which, or more fall of the caustic wit which all who knew the Speaker knew him to possess, he had never read in his life. But he (Mr. Adderley) would not attempt to recommend that institution what its members should read, nor to show whether any line of study was better than another, An institution of that sort, springing from the wishes of the people, was not formed to create a want, but to supply a want which was felt to exist when it was started. In a free, country like this institutions did not create wants, but were created by them, and it was because the middle classes of Leek same 20 or 30 years ago felt that they required an institution which would supply them with the news of the day, the literature in which they took pleasure, and means of social and intellectual en joyment that that institution was forced, and not to recommend them to read or what to study. So with all s'ich institutions. - The education of the country followed the wants of the country, and no amount of grants made by Parliament or of societies formed for educational purposes would ever educate the country, but when the appetite of the people turned towards higher education higher education would follow. It was the increase of skill in menu facture and in art that was educating the people of this country. As science advanced with civilisation everybody saw that they could not take their part in life without a certain amount of skill, and that made everybody seek the skill without which they could not gain a livelihood. What mechanics' in stitutions really exemplified was the co-operative principle in the country. This seemed a simple thing to say, but co-operation was one of the most important facts existing in this country. The prin ciple of co-operation which was illustrated in incti tions of that kind was being applied to all classes, and was giving the lower classes the enjoyment of many things which up to this time nothing but capital could command. They saw this principle curried out every wheze—in the London clubs— those great palaces in Pall-mall, where all the luxuries of a prince might be enjoyed by an ensign in a marching regiment—and in Lancashire, which Possessed the most vigorous and intelligent of our population ; and it was the co-operative principle which had made them what they were, which had made them a credit to the country during a crisis of two years which might have ended in disaster, bat had only furnished an illustration of their vigoer, of the sympathy of class with class, and of the vitality of the whole nation. (Applause.) What wonders they now heard from Rochdale ! Mad anybody present read the late accounts of the co-operative stores at Rochdale ? He confessed they had astonished and deeply interested him, and hs knew nothing at that moment more interesting, more important, more remarkable, or more characteristic of the genius of the country, or more hopeful for the prosperity of the country than that wonderful co-operate spirit fostered in Rochdale. The lower classes of operatives com menced a few years ago and put by their pennies each week, and now one association alone had a capital of upwards of £loo,ooo ; and by that means what had they done? They had given to the ope ratives of the lower classes the means of enjoy ment of all kinds which capital alone could com mand. In do'n,g this they had not only advanced themselves, but they had rendered a great essential service to the country, by diminishing the gap which existed between the poorer and the richer and more luxurious classes, and which was dangerous when ever it did exist to an extreme—whenever one part of the community was supplied with luxuries and the other with perhaps not even the common neces saries of life. There were two important features in this sy6tem—they had turned among themselves habits of debt to habits of saving and thrift, and had raised themselves and their families in their own and the public estimation—(applause)—they had changed want into plenty, and—it was not too much to say —scanty food and clothing into suffi ciency and comfort, and, what was still more re markable, they had alsl provided by the same prin ciple for the education of their children end their own intellectual arid social culture. (Applause.) chania instieut ions were nothing more thou that principle of cc-operation applied to their literary wants and their social and intellectual enjoyments. In that way they were of the most essential impor tance, and if it was important that there should be no gap bet ween one elan end another in physical enjoyment and comfort, how much more important was it that there should be no gap between them intellectually. If one class followed the progres- Five mind of the country and another class was un able to follow it, what a dangerous gap would be growing up between Caen]. The spirit of concord and agreement between people was that they sheuicl think alike, but if one-half of the country thought one way and the other half another, if one half was able to think and the other unable to think and ignorant, there must be dis- turbance and revolution, and nothing short of one or the other in the presence of such a gap. It was the very use of the co-operative system which brought the means of the middle classes to supply the literary requirements of the age. That there was an appetite throughout the country for literature—and for pure literature—no one could doubt. They saw it at every railway station. Those railway bookstalls were not supplied with libraries of indecent and corrupt literature, such as were to be seen in other countries, and he would venture to say there was not a single volume at any railway bookstall in the country which a lady need be ashamed to have in her hand. (Hear, hear.) This showed that there was a large demand for healthy literature throughout the country, and it was a hopeful sign of the age. (Applause.) The right hon. gentleman went on to refer to local topics, with which he concluded his address. The Cotton Supply and the Means of Paying for it, (From the Money Market Review.) ' On the 28th of November last we offered some remarks on the cotton supply of 1864, and the question of the means of paying for it. As time advances we see more clearly that the difficulties in the money settlement for the supply of cotton to be imported this year will be serious, and that we by no means overstated the derangement which that settlement will probably exercise in our money market for some time to come. We may divide this question into three parts :- 1. The payments for cotton to cotton-producing countries nearest to England. 2. The payments for cotton to countries east of the Cape of Good Hope: 3. The French payments for cotton in 1864. To understand the true bearing of the question before us we must remember that, although the Bank of England may influence to a considerable extent the operations of the commercial public in local business—where the probable extent of the de mand for money to carry it out is pretty accurately known before the public became involved in money obligations—it has no power to put an end to, or check in any way, contracts actually made in foreign countries by our merchants for produce re quired in England. The Bank does not hear of such obligations or know their extent until the time arrives when the merchants, either at home or abroad, are called on to make good their contracts by receiving such produce and paying for it, All ,he Bank of England can do at this point is to ac [la strict accordance with the spirit of its charter and, if gold be withdrawn, meet the drain b j rais ing the rate of discount. But this proceeding will not put an end to the difficulty ; the merchant must still fulfil his contract, although his means of doing so are grievously contracted by the opposing influ- ence of the Bank action. With regard to payments to cotton-producing countries nearest to England, the sudden advance which occurred some weeks back in the Bank of England rate of discount induced a pause in the outflow of money remittances. The firms engaged in these operations in London hoped that, as the general business of the country is sound, and capital abundant for all the ordinary transactions of com merce, the course adopted by the Bank of England would attract gold into its coffers, so that by wait ing a few weeks they would be enabled to procure at cheaper rates the bullion they required. But this suspension for a time does not involve the can celment of the cotton purchases, but only a short delay in forwarding the funds. We must still expect an outflow of bullion to meet these obliga- ions, and even within the last two or three days ,he value of money has been affected by them. With regard to the payment for cotton produced east of the Cape of Good Hope, on the 28th of Novembar we expressed an anticipation that a heavy demand for bullion from this country would be expe rienced, but up to that date the premonitory indica tions of a rise in the rates of exchange in India had not commenced. Now we hear that such a change 1 in the value of money, and in the rates of exchange at which hills on England are offered, his taken place, as to make us imagine that the houses inte rested in the export of cotton from India have been taken by surprise ; and we are prepared to hear of a marked derangement of the In dian commercial system until the pressure shall be relieved by time, and by the settlement ' of this year's cotton exports. We fear that those who have calculated that the full value of all the goods exported from this country, either in hand in India or on the way out, will be applicable for the payment of Indian cotton, will be disappointed to a considerable extent. The native population of India, as a whole, are poor, and cannot purchase a much larger value of goods this year than last. The dif ference of price, therefore, in our last year's exports of goods must of itself tend to diminish largely the extent of consumption ; and if to this be superadded the check involved in the rate of money being 20 per cent. in India, it is easy to imagine how cautions the native speculators who bay from the European importer must become, and how greatly reduced will be the extent of their operations until the derange ment subsides. The stocks of our goods in first hands will probably increase ; the native holders in the bazaars will get rid of their purchases at a dis count, throwing supplies into the markets of the interior at low prices ; and a atop will very likely be put to the usual course of business until the dis turbing causes disappear. It is stated that considerable remittances of gold from Australia to India are in progress, and also large shipments of sugar from 'Mauritius. Gold from Australia will be immediately available to clear out cotton from India by the purchase of bills ; but the sugar must first be sold, and this may not be accom plished quickly. If we place these supplies as a set off against the smaller sales of European imports into India for some months to come, we shall pro bably not be far wrong. The question, however, of paramount importance yet to be defined is the quantity of cotton which India will export during the present year. A million of bales of 300 lbs. each for all India may be settled for without serious pressure ; but if the quantity exceed that figure we must be prepared for serious difficulties in the money settlement, and more espe cially should the supply extend to the large quan tity which some of the estimates make it. With regard to the third part of the subject—the French payments for cotton in 1864—we believe that much of the gold taken from this country for France has been for this purpose ; and as the public are perfectly alive to the close connection which exists between the withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England and those from the Bank of France, we need not say more than that English merchants speculating in cotton can draw no comfort from this quarter, for there is certainly no amelioration in the bullion difficulty as connected with France. No HOME complete without a WILCOX AND GIBIIS SEWING-MACHINE. Simple, compact, efficient, durable, and noiseless. 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Mr. King, after referring to the causes of fire, said bzildings eould not be made en tirely fire-proof, but they could be constructed with a view of rendering them impervious to fire, so as to resist and not assist fire. Many plans had been proposed for increasing the extinguishing power of water, but the result had been so small as to be wholly unworthy of consideration, and all such schemes were practically useless. Phillips's Fire Annihilator was useful in contending with the ear liest stages of fires ; beyond that, when tried, it had been found practically to fail. Having detailed the improvements which had been made in fire-engines, he contended that llodges' fire observatory, con structed by himself, had been proved to be very useful in deciding the exact neighbourhcod of fires, and so enabling Mr. Hodges' Brigade to arrive first at the scene of the disaster: The advantage of the high-pressure system of water in the pipes was ob vious, but to enable it to be universally adopted in London the whole water system would require to be re-modelled. In extinguishing fires the steam fire engines must hold a foremost place, not only in consequence of the development of power, but on the ground of economy. He then treated the rise and progress of steam fire-engines, giving some in teresting details as to the construction of steam fire-engines at present in use. With reference to the late trial of steam fire-engines at the Crystal Palace, he observed that the programme for the trial was all that the most scrupulous could desire, had it been carried out. The committee did not comply with the terms on which they asked the exhibitors to work the engines, causing a very urge amount of confusion and dissatisfaction, and render ing the award of little or no importance as a test of intrinsic value; Several of the committee showed a marked partiality for certain descriptions of en gines, and owing to the want of unanimity among the members the result of the trial was unfortunately of little comparative value. He concluded by ex pressing a hope that in future volunteer fire brigades would receive more encouragement. A discussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. Frederick Hodges observed that everything ought to be done to increase the pressure of water. In the day it should be laid oa at about 60, and at night at 80 degrees. Mr. HANK EY, M.P., said a town like London should not depend upon private fire brigades. He ehould hail with great satisfaction the time when the legislature, public, private, and volunteer enter prise went hand in hand in establishing an effective fire brigade. Mr. BADDELEY, C.E., thought it very desirable that information should be obtained as to the causes of fires, a number of which were put down to un known causes. After some further discussion the proleedings terminated with a Tote of thanks to Mr. King for his paper. The Execution of Colonel &chi. Florence-2s we learn from a letter from that city —is mourning the lois of Colonel &chi, a Tusca❑ officer, who hes died in the cause of Poland. He had fought under Cherles Albert and Victor Em manuel, and appears to have been greatly beloved by his countrymen. When taken by the Russians in a skirmish in Poland, it seems that efforts were made to obtain lis reprieve, but General Berg peremptorily ordered his execution. He wes ac- corclingly shct on the 17th December. The night before his execution, a number of Polish ladies were allowed to remain with him in his cell. These ladies, n a letter to Bechi's widow, say :—" On the last day and night previous to his execution we were per mitted to remain in your husband's company. We had o:casion to admire the noblest of human beings, whose fate we this day have to deplore as though we mourned the lc :s of a brother and friend. Pure 29 an angel was he; notable for his misfortunes; of an impir:erbolile gentleness, 'Which moved to pity even his fierce gaolers ; indulgent towards others and valorous ; sublime in his enthusiasm for the holy cause of out liberty; a tender husband and loving father— he appeared before us in the aspect of a being elevated altogether above the common level of man. Your photograph and that of your children, which had been mislaid on the road, came this day to hand. He therefore had just time to take his leave of those be- loved images once more. It was a terrible leave. taking. We heard him say,' Poor Juliet, I am about to leave you for ever. You will scan have to don tho raiment of the Polish women_ How well the dark clothing will suit the fair tressc 3 of my bright haired girl. I leave to my boy and girl a stainless and unblemished name—an heritage of honour un sullied, but nothing more. Poland will protect you, _ _ and adopt you as her own.' Atter this he said tha' he implored your forgiveness for having brough such a terrible sorrow on your life. He subsequently conversed at great length of yourself and his chil dren, and his courage never failed him save when looking on your image and thinking of your widowed desolation, and of his helpless fatherless children. The story of that terrible night may only be written in tear 3. During two hours he slept; after the refreshment of rest he prayed. At eight o'clock in the morning we received his blessing and last farewell. Ho took his departure with a tran- quil and courageous demeanour. On his way he received continual ovations of triumph. At the moment of his exention his voice was heard to cry aloud, thre 3 times, Long life to Poland,' before he fell prostrate pierced with bullets to the ground. And now, what words can we make use of to comfort you? What words, drawn from the depths of the heart, would have the power to soothe ? We can only blend our tears with yours ; re would invite you to join us in prayer at the fcot of the crcsq, to pray, es your husband died, before he departed from us, like a Christian, a ti as gentleman, and a brave Italian such es he was. Bear up, therefore, as he did, against this sad reverse; and may God in His mercy help and protect you. We have this day been to pray on his tomb, which we often intend to visit; from the fresh laid gravel which cover 3 it we have gathered a handful of earth, which we send you. The earth . " as he said before he left us, ' would rest lightly' on his head. We shall endea vour to send you his military decorations, which are at present in the hands of our Prince. Farewell. A thousand times farewell, madam, May God pre tect you and your children for ever." On the night preceding his death the brave Tuscan wrote as follows to Madame Bechi :—" My pcor Juliet, — When you receive this letter your poor Lao will be no more. He will have been shot by the Russians. I bless you, together with my beloved children. Death has no terrors for me. It is hard, however, to die in a foreign country, far away from all those whom I love, and un able to embrace them once more. You will now soon be a widow. Bat I advise you not to marry again, unless, indeed, you are led to do so through consideration for the impe • rious interests of our children. Soon will those children be orphans, and this through my fault. May God have mercy upon ray soul! I forgive all my enemies with my whole heart. My Juliet, my Guido, my dear Elisa, I shall sec you no more. Farewell, farewell! Embrace Fanny, our mother, Arthur, Mc.ssitno, Fanny's children, and your father, and bid all kind friends a farewell for me. I die because I have stood firmly at my post, when nearly all the other chiefs had dispersed abroad. I have given my blood for Poland. May Poland not abandon my family to destitution: I send you a lock of my heir, which is damp already with the dew of death. I hope you will receivo my watch, my ring, and the locket I wear with your hair in it, which I leave as an heirloom to my dear Guido, to gether with my military decoration's. I have now but three hours to live. Take courag e , m y Juliet ; we shall doubtless meet in heaven. Meantime pray for my soul. My last thoughts are with God, and with yourself. May the blessing of an innocent man bring you happiness. Farewell, farewell ; a thousand and a thousand tender kisses to you, my , dear Juliet, to my (I,,r;ing chikiree, Pnil to 01 my •:els_tiott.s." AIOSDAY EVENING, MAIN SIGNALLING. There is notling in which the telegraph has rendered more service to railsays than in what has been technically called "Train Signaling;' Its value for this purpose was pointed out two-and-tventy years ago, in a very explicit manner, by the origina patentee, Mr. Wm. Fothergile Cooke, in a pamphlet of apages, illustrated by four plates. The pur port of this paaphlet may be gathered from the title : " Telegraphic railways ; or, the single way recommended, by safety, ecommy, and efficiency, under the safeguard and control of the liectric Telegraph: with particular reference to railway coamunication with Scotland, and to Irish Railways." If any of the fundamental rules for protecting trains in motica may be found is this pamphlet. The railwa3system has in these latter days so expanded I itself—trains lave so multiplied in number, that it is im perative on mangers to have recourse to the telegraph for regulating then movements; business cannot otherwise be conducted in afety. The old forms of instrument were not equal to the dtties required on those lines where the traffic was so heavy—trains following trains in such quick suc cession, that peaking, instruments of a new character were imperatively remanded. Little is required to be expressed in this servio ; but that tittle must be in language not only unmistakeable but of extreme brevity. There is no tine for speeches, note for sentences, not even for spelling. ^he well-worked railway is cut up into shorter and shorter actions, and the distance between signal sta tions is constntly made less and Less. As the duty of the telegraph is tt protect the line, length by length, consecu tive trains areno longer separated each from the other by an interval oftime, but by an interval of space. The inter val of time m.y be long or short; it may be measured by hours or by Mnutes ; the safety is the same. A second train is not allowed to enter upon any length of railway, be it long or be it ihort, until the train preceding has left that length. Whet these lengths are—as they are in some cases of metropolitan lines—reduced to very small fractions of a mile, and trails follow each other—as they de on high days and holidays—as fast as they can be loaded, it is obvious that the telegraphic language must be brief and expressive. A few seconds is all the time at command. No pardon of this can be spared for calling attention ; the signal and its reply must be instant on the heels each of the other. The organs open to the language of the telegraph ate the eye and the ear, What human eye, even were it relieved from its other responsible duties, is equal to the amount of fixed watchfulness implied by such duties as we have described ? The ear, happily, is always open ; and no action is required on the part of him to whose ear language is addressed. Then the ear is not fatigued with listening, as the eye is with gazing. Hence it has become the practice to address the ear under these pressing circumstances. The few things to be said—and they are very few; the fewer the better—are accordingly expressed by sounds, differing is quantity and quality. Sometimes the memory is assisted by a viand signal, permanent for the time being, and altered in character, when the condition it indicates is itself changed. This either accompanies or follows the audible signal. The memory is more fully assistsd, and a system of checking and permanent record is added, by booking the signals, as they follow on in rapid succession. Not only is the fact—be it what it may—put on record, but the interval that has passed since the fact occurred ; since, for example, a coming train arrived, or a parting train left, may be seen, if required, at a glance. Ruled books are provided, where every possible word is printed ; and little save the name of each train and the time-figures, requires entering. This saving of unnecessary labour is very essential; for in times of great pressure it requires lissom fingers to enter up legions of train signals—of ins and outs, of comings and goings.—Pailivay News. REFORM IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY, The InvaliJe Busse publishes the subjoined infor mation : The Minister of War is occupied at this moment in exe cuting two important reforms :-Ist, the new organisation of the army ; and 21, the new system of military adminis tration, The first relates to the formation of active corps from the reserve, and to the formation of regiments and battalions for the defence of the fortresses, &a., also to the training of recruits for the active corps by means of special detachments. We have, as every one knows, besides the guards, the grenadiers, and the army of the Caucasus, only 72 regiments of active infantry forming six infantry corps. France possesses at thistime 106 regiments of infantry, with counting the guard; Aastria 91 and Prussia 71; and more over the regiments of the guard and the lan'lwebr. How - ever, this organisation of our army was sufficient ; for in time of war we were title to form for each active regiment a reserve regiment, also two battalions in depot. In reckoning the regiment at threw battalions of 1,000 men, our active force in infantry was 226,000 men, and a reserve of 350 battalions, or about 350,000 men. The fortresses, even in time of peace, cannot be wahout sufficient garri sons, furnished up to the present time by troops that might be more useatlly employed on the field of battle—these gar risons have, thtrefore, weakened our active force—besides it was necessary to keep for those troops everything that composes the train of battalions of an army in activity. In fat are the gstr:sons will be formed of men le,ss capable of field service, and whom it will not be nccossary to fur nish with the train ot equipage belonging to active battalions, which arrangements will effect a con siderable economy. As the troops in garrison are nut subject to perpetual marching, they will have plenty of time to be trained to the use of cannon. They will c ,nsequently tarnish a good number of artillerymen in re serve, and rein orcements for the active army, at the same time that they fulfil all the conditions of efficient defence of the places conicla to them. Up to this time, the care of training recruits belonged to the divisions, and this incon venience existal, that for one regiment ten recruits had to be trained ; for another, a hundred ; for a third, a thousand, and there wer: not always sufficient expert drillmasters. Now, this case is entrusted only to a certain number of battalions, distributed in the fortresses, in the Government towns, and in some district towns, Experience proves that 100 drillmasters are sufficient to prepare in a short time 1,000 recruit:, consequently we must have a reserve body of 10,000 or :2,000 good masters, in order to drill in the course ot a year, not only the double, but in case of need the triple of our contingent for the year, viz., 375,000 men. This system already in the course of execution, and the reserve divisions of the first five corps of infantry aro already changed into active troops." ART WATI'H CASES.—" In Benson's great case are seme fine specimens of engraved watch cases, designed by the pupils of the Schools of Design. They are, perhaps, on the whole, the test specimens of engraved watch cases in the Exhibition." — Clerkenwell News, October 27, 1802. Chrono meter, duplex, lever, horizontal, repeaters, centre seconds, keyless, splis seconds, and every description of watch adapted to all climates. Benson's illustrated pamphlet on watches, free by post for two stamps, contains a short history of watchmaking, with prices, from 3 to 200 guineas each. It acts as a guide in the purchase of a watch, and enables those who live in any part of the world to select a watch, and have it sent free and safe by post. Prize medal and honourable mention, classes 33 and 13. J. W. Benson, 33 and 31, Lud gate-hill, London. Established 1749. Watch end clock maker, by spe.;ial warrant of appointment, to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. • - The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Friday heard a complaint of assault and false imprison ment made by an agent d'affaires, named Letailleur, against a Mme. likubert, a woman 72 years of age, and very in firm. A man named Chenneviero and vile were also charged a 3 accomplices. The complainant who demanded 10,000 fr. damages, deposed as follows :—" Some time since I summoned Mme. Dhubert before the jugs de paix for a debt of 424 fr. I was aware that the amount exceeded the jurisdiction of that magistrate. I thought, however, we might perhaps come to an amicable arrangement; but the person who attended for Mme. Dhubert protested against my demand as extravagant. I according determined to see Mme. Dhubert herself, and having ascertained from the concierge that she was at home, and willing to receive me, I went up to her apartment. I had no sooner entered, however, then she locked the door, and commenced an as sault on my person. She struck me three times on the breast and pulled my beard, at the same time calling me a thief, an assassin, and accused me of having been the cause of her losing a suit which I had managed for her. At last I got out of the room, and was assailed on the landing by Chennevisre and bis wife, the former of whom struck me repeatedly, but the latter only abused me with her tongue." The comrlainant called several witnesses, but their evidence did not support his statement. M. Lachaud, for the de fence, stated that the juge de paix had reduced the complainant's claim of 424 f. to 30f., and was proceeding to speak of the assault when the President of the Tribunal said that he had heard enough, dismissed the charge against all three defendants, and condemned the plaintiff to pay all expenses. The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Friday also tried a woman named Vasse, who had occasionally assumed the titles of Baroness or Countess de St. Marie, on numerous charges of obtaining goods and money under false pretences. A furniture dealer deposed that the prisoner entered his shop and bought a pair of carved oak stools, which she ordered to be sent to Mare. Ste.-Marie, wife of t he Governor of Algeria, ltue Garauciere. As, while bargaining for the stools, the prisoner remarked that she had seen a pair exactly like them in the apartment of M. Chaix d'Est- Ange, he supposed her to be a frien d of that gentleman, who was a customer of his, and therefore sent the goods without hesitation, but had never been able to get his money. Other tradesmen deposed that the prisoner had obtained goods of them in a similar manner, and had even borrowed money of them under the pretext that she had accidentally left her purse at home. The prisoner, in her defence, dcelarcd that she had never had any fraudulent intention, and that most of the complainants had since been paid. She added that her husband held a situation under Government in Algeria, and that she had a right to use the titles she had assumed. With respect to M. Chaix d'Est-Ange, she admitted that she was not an acquaintance of his, but that her daughter was his house keeper. The Tribunal, considering that the prisoner had obtained credit by false representations of her position, de clared the charges proved, and eentenced her to three months' imprisonment, .ANTIARY 25, ISM. ourselves and depopularise King George, by becom ing parties to an arrangement that gives us the island disarmed and mortified. The Greeks allege that they elected their monarch on the understand ing that the lonian Islands were to be ceded to them. They could not foresee this cession accompanied by humiliating circumstances. They say they have been so far tricked, and they must take care to right themselves. They will sign no treaty by which the destruction of their forts and the neutralisation of the Islands are insisted on as conditions. In that case, quoth England, I must keep the islands. That will only make your breach of promise more fla grant, saith the Greek. Since you won't have the islands by the only way in which we can part with them, we are determined to keep them, quoth Eng land, and keeping them we shall preserve the forti fications intact. The work of destruction has, there fore, not been proceeded with, and Great Britain is still saddled with the maintenance and government of a very recalcitrant and oddly placed set of sub jects. In the midst of this, a very ably drawn up act of accusation against England, for its malversa tion and mismanagement in the lonian Islands, has been made by a Ft ench gentleman named Le Nor mant, and printed in the Revue des Deux Mondes. In this the English are accused not merely of mis rule and of abuses in their political administration, but even in their fiscal and economical manage ment of the islands it is affirmed that they have committed worse blunders in the lonian Islands than the most retrograde Government in Europe. Our boasted improvements are declared to be mere deceptions; our roads scarcely get half a mile out of the great town before they are lost in the open country. Our export duties were es high and as barbarous as those of Greece itself, or of Turkey, and our system of taxation ground the poor and exempted the rich. We do not credit the truth or justice of this virulent French impeachment. But some one competent to do so ought really to take the trouble to expose the fallacies and refute the errors of this calumnious accusation. In the Revue des Deux Mondes it is addressed to the tribunal of Europe. There should be some one who would take the trouble to reply. LONDON REVIEW.—The last hope of preserv!ng peace seems to have vanished. The Austrian and Prussian troops are already on their march to occupy Slesvig, and on the frontier of that duchy it is well understood they will meet the only reception which it is possible for Denmark to give them, with out placing her independence at the feet of the German Powers. All that remains doubtful is the extent of the conflict and the issues which it may involve. Defeated in the Federal Diet on their proposition to occupy Slesvig as a means of com pelling the Danes to withdraw the Constitution of November, Austria and Prussia have taken the settlement of the pending dispute into their own hrnds. In their view, the step they are adopting is a pacific one ; but although it is possibly as little as they could do, in the present temper of the Ger man people, it obviously constitutes a direct act of war, and threatens us with ail the consequences which, in the present state of Europe, such an act may involve. There is no doubt, however, that the policy and the avowed aim of these two States are completely at variance with the claims which their own subjects and their Confederates in the Bund desire to urge. The popular demand in Ger many—the demand of the secondary States who have so lately been, the object of the suspicious at tentions of the Emperor of France—is, that the Treaty of London should be at once set aside, that. the Diet should declare the rule of t he Danish kings in Schleswig and Holstein at an end, and that the whole power of the Tectonic race should be em ployed in erecting these Duchies into a State under Prince Frederic of Augnstenburg. The conduct of Austria and Prussia is based upon an altogether different principle. As signitaries of the treaty of 1852, they are not prepered to violate its stipula tions ; as great European Powers, they are sensible of the danger of embarking on a war for the aggran disement of Germany. They, therefore, acknow ledge that the treaty in question confers upon Christian IX. the succession to the Duchies ; but they allege that a certain contemporary understand ing has been violated by the Constitution already referred to, and they are preparing to enter Schles wig, not with a view of separating it from Danmark, but as a mode of extorting the repeal of this ob noxious constitution. It would not be difficult to prove that the negotiations of 1851-2 furnish no ground for these complaints, while they are still further from lending any justification to so violent a method of enforcing them. Had Austria and Prussia been as much in the right as we think them lin the wrong. the mode in which they pressed their demands on Denmark—their peremptory summons Ito that Power to surrender at twenty-tour hours' notice—is hardly cosssistent with a sincere desire for the peaceful settlement of points which diplo macy may possibly have left eSteen. We cannot now stay to consider the real bearing' of the negotiations of ten years ago. The discassieen of historical details would lead us far from our peesent object, which is to show the radical discrepancy that exists between the wishes of the Germans and the course of Austria and Prussia. Indeed, the letter are not now acting as German but as Europeais Powers. In that capacity they have overruled the Diet ; and if they are successful, they will have demonstrated once more the utterly feeble and useless character of the organisation which assumes to re present the nationality of the Teutonic race. It re mains, however, to be seen whether they will be successful. Their course is beset with difficu'ty and danger. In the first place, the Governments both of Austria and Prussia will be driven to violate the Constitution of their respective countries •, for the Prussian Parliament has refused, and the Austrian Reichsrath seem on the point of refusing, the sup plies necessary to carry out a policy which falls far short of the national wishes. But, in addition to this, they will be placed in a position of antagonism towards the other German States. We should not be disposed to estimate very highly the difficulties likely to arise from either these causes could we con fine our view to the Fatherland. But, as we pointed out last week, there is reason to fear the appearance of another, and a more energetic actor, upon the scene. The recent note which the French Emperor has addressed to the secondary Powers can have no other object than to incite them to throw off the leadership, or rather the dictatorship, of Francis Joseph and William I. There is no knowing to what extent the small kings and princes may go under the encouragement of such powerful patron age. It is at least premature to talk of a civil war in Germany ; but thoughtful politicians do not con ceal their apprehensions of a possible tendency to wards a new Confederation of the Rhine. If the resistance of Denmark—assisted, as we trust she will be, by Sweden and other powers—be suffi ciently protracted, the division which exists in Germany must be embittered, with every month of struggle. We do not pretend to forecast the policy of Louis Napoleon, but it is certain that he will not lose the opportunity of extending his in fluence, and profiting by the quarrels of his neigh bours. Ignorant ee we are of hie precise intentions, it is utterly impossible even to guess at the probable course of events, after a cannon has once been fired in hostility on the banks of the Eider. We have, indeed, the disagreeable conviction that his Majesty does not really desire peace, because, had he done so, he could easily have procured it by frankly ca-ope rating with England for the protection of Denmark. Unfortunately, if he deems it his interest to prolong a European war or to foment European confusion, the means are not likely to be wanting. The prospect before us is of the most threatening character. Nor hmanly which and can we look with satisfaction sepon anything ing has recently transpired, except it be the high-spirited address in which the lienish Rigsrad has just pledged itself to maintain at an: sacrifice the integrity of the kingdom. SPECTATOR.—The Maori war has given rise to a scheme magnificent in conception, and which if exe cuted may be entitled also to be called beneficent. The leading men of New Zealand propose to stud the North Island with villages of military settlers, so distributed upon great lines of communication that they will constitute a complete and well-knit sys temaaunot r f y d e w f t n h c e c , u s l e t g i v r a e t e i a e n t e . t hTe To ae e e natives, n p a l i n s h d t c h o v i s e r t h t e h y e will require 20,000 men and a loan of two millions and a half. The figures are large, but the project looks feasible; and if it be carried out, ..few greater works will have been done, with premeditation, this century. By some such process alone can the Maori race be saved from extermination. What the colonists desire is the cessation not only of war, but the fear of war with the savage tribes on the fringes of whose far spreading but desolate lands they dwell. They have tried the laissezaller method, they have tried empirical plans of conciliation and nursing ; both have failed. Neither non-intervention nor the bribes of Sir G. Grey have sufficed to raise the Maories to that state which we call civilisation, and which would render the land habitable. notion that it is practicablelheM te ao s r e i t es up ha a v ik e i r b t d h self governed anindependent ; an i cl an2 f i e i king dom, is right to act on w g h . at they are fightin , They thhaevye please;, f co u butrse, i at is plain perfect ideas that a Maori kingdom , a daßeitish colony cannot subsist side by • side. No Maori kingdom imaginable of a British could limit the g ro wth colony. Persist ence in the Maori idea means perpetual war, and perpetual war means extermination, sooner or later, of the Maori race. But .f a skilful occupation of the country,the Maori 1 by can be made to feel at once weakness and the benefits which flow from thriving settlements, then his idea may be extinguished; he too may settle down into the eaceful c ultivator, and thus be saved. Oth • P Otherwise, as it appears to us, not. For in a series of wars he must lose, and finally pass away and be seen no more . Wherefore: it is not less for the benefit 4 of the Maories than for the benefit of the colorists that no pains should be spared to •••••~....0..r•ug...d..,.......,...........—•....""''e4""-- make this war the last, by making it, time, the means of binding together the w hole d e: the settlements in the northern islands Nvi Eh ban n of warrior agriculturists. There is something -17`; f sidlic _ man in the project, the authentic details o we have before us. It proposes to do a definite Veil of work at once and for ever. It proposes Eli d o t . in a large and effective way. Instead of leavieeee at the saint tlement to chance and irregular and cruel WW: it proposes to make settlements on a plan based n_.': the military topography of the country. It proPh.r: t h e preice• to make the land itse'f pay the cost of in part, and looks to the effects of increased p01)°,1a; tion upon revenue to pay the remainder. This is Word scheme of pacification which merits the _ e thorough." It is, of course, the reverse of te . u s bootless measures of Sir George Grey, Whi ch lli f admirers call " wise and beneficent. It is, of course, based on " confiscation," which so eli cc eha gentlemen who have signed them emorial te `__. Governor. But, with all but due respect for thaw. and in opposition to them, we say it is a statescase,. like scheme, and the only one which includes .9leu. faintest chance of saving the Maorics from 0t113,14 tion. If the lands held by the Maories were higu,4 cultivated estates, and it were proposed to se' n . them, we should agree with the memorialists in,ccevr d e mning confiscation. Then confiscation i n ror Z:.aland would be like confiscation in Lithoell'Et;es Ireland. But the land is a wilderness. The ge° l ' e a can make and do make no use of it. from them it would be no loss to them--wch A bstrac ted Id 04. 4 be absolute gain, for the ample tracts of land value. Which would remain to them would then acouire a o Thus confiscation, instead of deprivfng h e° 01 something, would really be adding to their teete!ool wealth, and the result of confiscation, Co would bring among them taw and order, the es B the tial conditions of civilisation. It is onlY hi g her assumption that the Maori is incapable °f l fol• development, that those " bitter fruits " W°? h d the low from a "policy of confiscation '' Whir., he memorialists deplore. On their prinoil meu ot lo B would be as surely pressed back by ritish colonist, and finally extinguished, se f llB f,ed Indian or the Carib. lf the Maori can be cn - ceit and saved, here is the unly plan whereby ti'll' be done. the eneritited SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. SATURDAY RENTIEW.—A general impression pre vails, which may or may not be corroborated by facts, that the Ministry is weaker than it was, that it can less afford to stand an attack, and that the Conservative leaders, although notoriously un willing to force on an issue, may be driven by their supporters to try their strength. The Conservatives have increased their forces since the last election, and it is indisputable that their forces are very:strong. We have now had two sessions barren of interest and excitement, and of which nothing better can be said than that, if nothing was done in them, nothing was promised to he done. The nation, not having any domestic grievance of a salient kind to grumble over, and oecupied with the observation of foreign affairs, has been satisfied with the long period of inaction, and has taken pleasure in finding an opportunity of pay ing Lord Palmerston the handsome compliment of letting him preside in undisturbed ease over this epoch of repose. But, in the nature of things, a quiet and easy-going time — a time when peopl are satisfied with themselves, and delight in keeping up the military strength of the country without any wish to make any demonstration or Ilse of it —must tend to throw power sooner or later into the hands of the Conservative party. Nor is it at all desirable that accidental causes should long debar a party from the experience and consistency it derives from holding office, when the general sentiment of the nation runs in that groove to which the party professes to adhere. The Conservatives may be said in a general way to de serve their turn of power, and it would be a misfor tune if those who are likely to lead them hereafter should not have their fair share of official training before they are too old to learn. Hitherto, the Con servatives have been kept back by several causes of considerable importance. They do not carry with them the general body of educated Englishmen. In the Houses of Parliament there are young men of promise on their side, because family connexions have made the profession or adoption of the Conser vative programme a condition and a means of their securing their seats. But outside Parliament edu cated opinion is not on the side of the Conservatives. There is no literature conceived in a spirit favourable to their pretensions; they have no powerful organs in the press ; and the defensive, and therefore some • what carping and narrow, position which they are obliged to occupy alienates those who look on poli tics from what they conceive to be a broader point of view. But in other respects the Conservatives have made a real advance. For they have got rid of some of their other shortcomings. They have, more especially, attained a pcsition of Parliamentary strength which enables them to be compared nos very unfavourably with their opponents. They could show a Ministerial front in the House of Commons which would be by no means despicable. Lord Malmesbury will, we presume, be got out of the way ; and he might relieve his party at once of the embarrassment of his presence, and of the re proach of not being able to find a Paris Ambassador of their choosing, if he replaced Lord Cowley at. Paris. Even Lord Malmesbury might shine at Paris, for Lord Cowley has worked hard to make any successor welcome. With Mr. Disraeli as Foreign Secretary, with Sir Stafford Northcote as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Hugh Cairns and Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald and Lord Robert Cecil to act as ready and powerful supporters in debate, and with Lord Stanley to add the influence of his name and his ponderous respectability, the Con servatives might fill with some credit the benches now adorned by Sir George Grey and Sir Charles Wood. If Lnrd Palmerston, once out of office, were to find himself too old to care much more for party struggles, there would remain on the Liberal side in the House of Commons only Mr. Gladstone to represent the order of statesmen which towers above the level of the Conservative leaders. Events also have taken a turn which gives the C inservatives a much better chance than they have had for some years. The old party cries are nearly worn out, and the old watch words of the Liberals have become empty sounds. Reform and the Ballot and Church-rate Abolition are gone to the Silences, at least for the present. New questions have come up which theraten more and more to engross the minds of Englishmen. There is the qu estion of the relation of England to foreign nations; and there is the question of the practicability or lieu's sity of changes in the construction of the Esta blished;Church. In the discussion of both questions the Conservatives may not unfitly sit on the official side of the House. So long as the success of the Italian movement could be supposed to depend on the action of English parties, the gulf of opinion and sentiment that lay between the mass of the governing classes and the Conservative leaders made their firm tenure of office almost impossib'e. But now that Italy has got a 3 good a chance of suc cess 99 she is likely to have, and that we cannot and will not do more for her—as we have no power to get the French out of Rome, and have no intention of fighting Austria for the recovery of Venetia — there is not much ground for supposing that the bitterest Conservative could do Italy any great harm. No injury to Italy on which a Conservative Government could venture is likely to equal in im portance the 14low struck by Lord. Russell inramov ing Sir James Hudson. And, if we put Italy aside, and look at our foreign policy as a whole, it seems now to consist in little more than doing very little, and writing a great many despatches. Way should the Conservatives be supposed incapable of doing very little and of writing any number of despatches ? They might, too, make their despatches civil and conciliatory, and although this would be a great change, it might not be a bid one. Oa some points also, their preposessions, so far as any Ministry dares to have or avow prepos sessions in these days, might tend to redress the balance of English influence a little, and to make us fairer in some of our political dealings. No Ministry could well leave Turkey to be the prey of Francs and Russia, but a new Ministry might re gard the struggles and hopes of the dependen cies of Constantinople without that jealousy and that belief in the sacred right of Turkey to govern which the memory of old diplomatic contests has imprinted on the mind of Lord Palmer ston. So, too, no Ministry would dare to depart from the policy of neutrality which we have laid down for ourselves with regard to the American Civil War. We are not going to help either side. But the Federals have attained an influence with the present Ministry which might be balanced ad vantageously by the sympathy which prevails in the Conservative ranks for the cause of the South. If it is fair that a Cabinet Minister should do as Mr. Gibson has dove, and issue a partisan manifesto in favour of the North, it would not be unfair that another Cabinet Minister should do what many Con servatives would be very glad to do, and explain why the simple issue of slavery or no slavery does not scam to them the true one. That the religious question will also assume importance before long is as certain as a generation which has seen the interest in reform fade away can feel that anything is certain iu English politics. A move will be made to do away with some of the tests by which the English clergy are bound, and to abolish or greatly alter the Establishment in Ireland. Whatever may be the value of the arguments by which the attack in either case is supported, it appears to us to be clearly the part of the Conservatives to make the de fence. They have a distinct intelligible line on each question—a line consistent with their traditions and with the whole feelings of their party. It is a line in which a large portion of English opinion will support them, and by adhering to which they can make a long, a creditable, and possibly a successful fight. They will have much to say which their opponents will have to own is worth consider ing; and if they are defeated, they can scarcely fail to be defeated only gradually and by a little and to secure a handsome and respectable com promise. The Irish Church, for example, when regarded in the gloss, and from the outside, seems to have rather a questionable case; but when it is looked at in connection with English history, with the conduct of public affairs in Ire land, with the ecclesiastical institutions of England, and with the interests of powerful individuals, it assumes a different shape, and it does not seem to be quite so easy to touch it. The Conservative may find much to urge in its favour, nor will it do them any harm that the course thus forced on them will probably tend to separate them from those strange Ultramontane allies whom a dread of Lord Palmer ston's views about the Temporal Power has lately arrayed on their side. The time, therefore, seems to be near at hand when the Conservatives will, for the first time for nearly•twenty years, have an op portunity of holding office on something like satis factory terms, unless some unexpected crisis occurs It is true that the prospect of a Conservative Go yarn men t excites no enthusiasm, fort he defensive and critical attitude of the Conservatives denies them popularity, and the supremacy of Mr. Disraeli would be a national event not exactly calculated to make people enthusiastic. But a change of ministry would be token calmly, and, if regretted on account of the personal eminence of Lord Palmerston, Lord Russell, and Mr. Gladstone, would yet commend itself as giving a fair turn to a powerful party, and as being in substantial correspondence with a great portion of English opinion. EXAMINER.—Greece and England are, we aro sorry to say, arrayed in hostile position, Instead of shak ing hands, they have come to spar, and although no blows have been struck, they have assumed an atti tude of combative mistrust one to the other. Eng land has declared that she must and will blow up the forts in the island of Corfu. Greece says, we cannot prevent your blowing up the fortifications, for which the lonians paid at least a part, but we cannot be a consenting party. We cannot disgrace COUNTRY MARKETS. _------tt►-- --. NORWICH—SicryBD AS. 00 t ill. A fair supply of wheat, and prices the same 005 id oil day se'nnight. There was a moder ate supply °f I t° lo o offer—much less than of late, and pri ces remain Flour unaltered. A u to 4 1 White wheat. 44s to 46, I Red wheat ....... 7, Ai1 . - - t p Ow Malting barley ...36s to 378 I Chevalier barley •'Tt° 9° Distilling d 0..... 308 to 32s I Oats.. ........... „.a`2'€,,,,, Flour, 27s 6d to —s ed per sack from 0 2 ° 31''..- NORTHAMPTON—SATURDAY. a t OP We had barely an average show of wheat on offer„.oltr. corn market to-day, the condition of which Was irtlbotA. The trade was rather dull, and recent rates sheetifer Der. supported. Barley in middling demand, and 01 1 1 W: sorts maintaining late rates. Oats, beans, and Pe 6 rates.—White wheat, 39s to 46s red, 378 to 4 2 ,f, 3 ,;,, to ' L °. to —s per qr. Barley, 35a to 375—grinding, fo" Oats, 17s to 30s per 24 stone. Bea ns, 38a to 4'B' 30s to 38s per qr. YORK—SATURDAY. A fa r i;, There was a fair show of wheat at market toirst.to-i time of the year, but the condition by no mean B ;03, i al u Fine dry lots sold at late prices ; otheJ sorts olugg r 40 01 " ls per qr less money. Oats and beans at WO tions, with a slow demand. 204 ,„, Wheat, red 38s to 4 0 s Oats.... ......... ', 3's,,,ss to to I ;',, White do .49s to 4 5 s Beans .......... ..... 0 to 03 Barley .26s to 32s Peas ......... ••'•itourf Malt, 5Ss to 60s per qr.; rye, 30s per qr.; to 30s per sack. .1 LEICESTER—SITnnnia• .60,1;"1 We were supplied with a seasonab le quart an d, "d. 811" to-day from the growers, which met a dull ders ad slit-'0 0 prices is per qr lower than last week. .1 1 in the barley trade, but there was a good supPIPU",-- D sl66 purchased at rather lower rates. Oats quiet. P 7 ~er to 4 25 vi r il ltiSt —New white wheat, 41s to 45.1 ; ;red, 38s stone. Old red, 39s to 41s per 36 stone. Barlei, : new, 32s to 35s q; grinding 27s to 295; "'OP" 25s to 235; new per oats, r. 2ls to 235 , per 24 st° 9 ;. °, 2 * ()StO *l old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour , 27 s to 31$ Pe' NOTTINGHAM—SATunDAS. 00010 At this corn market to-day there was a modera—tost ante of farmers and factors, but the show of ;o rti l ,"' hardly so good as last week. The demand vrafVforb'd and in some cases prices were lower. The daaalliocera ley was not equal to the supply—inferior sorts, fl cheaper. Oats and beans dull , at last s ag sWe elee e to 4"- ts —White wheat, from 41s to 4 7s ; red wheat, Barley—malting, 30s to 38 s ; grinding , 278 t ° 3. (1 °‘ old, at 24s to 30s Od ; new, 19 s , t o 255. Bean ° B° l to 42s per qr. ; new, 34s to 365. Foreign Mail Packet List. 1 6 ' MAILS DUE. Feb . 2. brazil and Capo Verde, b v y i Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... ~,D , l Araz* Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helen..lt.4, k China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southanipton.;,,, 2' via Marseilles .• Falkland Islands .. . 16. ........... pp. aMar British se i r l laeeste. .............. p op . 3 0 , . Gibraltar, via Southampton .................. feb•oi. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.•3o,l: via M a rseillee••• .. jo 0. ... India (Bombay), via Southampton .....••'''• ,Jan' jn. via Marseilles ....... Feb. Portugal.... ... . .............. . ........... ' e j, Malta, _Egypt, and Aden, via South am pton •• • Jaa' via Marseilles ......... PP N e wfoundland . ............................ • ‘o , Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. pa cket.. ** 0 , by U.S. Packet".t:•Plfi 10. • • Oka i• 13. by Canadian P e,,• W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritie ...... ° re"' 8. Bahamas, via New York ' ....................... Jell' 9 Mexico.. ................. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Per u, / ' ll California. and British Columbia..... _..........•••• ."--- --'' -7..-- - ----------- " -- l' 1). vrt 14111fj li o f THE SITE OF THE GREAT r eESl lO3 " )lO .,,e, ING OF 1862.—The scaffolding for the or ct d': f . , this building has now reached the top of th e mei': diaaP,.(r-itir and the entire structure will, we believe, raP i 'lle AL7 It It is confidently expected that its remova l July 1 5/4 0 dria Park, Hornsey, will be accomplished bl O P"i ii il fi l is intended, we hear, to level the site of toil ta w to building, to sow the same with grass, arid l ur e ses in t ; of the whole ; leaving to Parliament, in 0 ill; in fil e oeo I go' decide what public edifice shall be erected'`-nciq the - this noble plot of land at South Kensingt - t o / ,iOO perty of the nation. The Sar ef l i A ll RECRUITING AT NEW YORIC.----•e 040)04 recruiting committee are allowed t° , - titae itt , d - vic 9 soldiers whose term in the field expires at 013 / 13 , of , 0 - e/ paying them the bounty at once, and the ter rv isof ..,00 0 commencing from the new enlistment. S a t: - As I :;d 10. , dumb-waiter, or trap-door, works to a eba r l i is St ;GO a recruit is passed the chairman hands l'i n3 A doWil - 0 1 stands him on the trap and cries, " Go 1 0 311 re d he rr be foto in a twinkling, like a bag of sugar or a 13 0 j o lioselk,,, De' into the regions or basement below, and fin ° in pelli ° " - ,, sc . he knows it, before a score or more of boo n cc :. rs, 11 ,11 0 1 0 yond the possibility of being reached by abalielealt 'e Jot constantly on the look-out to wheedle the g' . ,,i o ree: v ,Ji out of their money. Mr. Blunt has fitte d llPt;ree° t ot' their reception warm and comfortably, an d .: droo l/ s cja% every afternoon they are all marched off vor tio foliVil ing and colours flying, to headquarters, O a to tea - It a liel day clothed in blue toggery and tranalacr,„otio 013 tot Island, The women have become extra Pal`.l3'itta 10 offering to enlist. One buxom lass writes to lur, i.o 0 01 0 '‘ fit for s ? P ilo 00 050 she is a full and able - bo died woman, clothes and the field, and if she can only Paa4ro obolidi examination, which she tells the chairman P. better tr t ° no difficulty about, is sure she would Mak e ° „elm 00 than any man now in the field, and begs tile .. 13 .-. l2 e r il i°l :ol 4 ' receive her. It is somewhat doubtful if the 0 11 7 tbe vie lo 4 look upon her case in the same flattering Jig 4606013;1'A, be volunteer does. It is a case of superlative P or k lir will probably' be allowed to pass over. --,Yet° CARS Ex,. . .—On the 22d inst., at Ro atop, Oer ts ' tlte Iv C. Carver, Esq , B of ir a t s il : Y ifd d tii . meet A $ CATENDISIT.—On the 22d inst. at St Jatnese-Pg'lifet4 Lady Emily Cavendish, of ; son, 'which 04 short time.t feel° OLADSTONE.—On the 20th inst at Wavtreel ‘ ,"" t i e r _ , A . nwriifelloafrtß, oofbeartoGulgadhsteto:e,"Esq., of and uP pa • t . ph tffehe liikuT.—On the 20th inst., at 148, New Bottd-Str— 1 la arri a g e s. FILANCE--POOLE —On , the 21st inst., at .A.ll $0,111;o1050 ham-place, CaptainaCharles Hosken Franeft:of tO4l, ltegt., to Mary H lsted, youngest daughte_le ow Captain William Halsted Poole, ILA., of -cr , Shropshire. , o, •- 11# MARTEN —BEST —On the 21st inst., at St. Leonorltlo 0110,1 the t n y , O E:4 e a s r t d d ß au i n dhotne Marten,ftiil ofte S.6o:l,luvrabrdiclifeeo,t, pg .0 Bilston, J.P. for the croountyeofaStatford, De a t hs. rholes P ANDERSON. —On the 20th inst., at Aberdeen, - f. Anden,on, Esq., aged 72. trll /4 BANKEs.—On the 22d inst., at Stoke-green, C°'6l 1, P" Bankes, aged 63. BoDDINGTax—On the 19th inst., at Wellingbontr oi, thamptonshire, John 13oddington, Esq, age, 1300 mall, aged the 19th inst., the Rev. 1 " r1 41 6 1 '.,. 1 1' I DAOne °I. wsoN.—On the 22d inst., Mr. John 1:10,00, " the Secretaries of Cheshunt College, g' d P' .tcf Pijil FlSK...."aoEgnsecidt.h,ea3g2e2dd isnos.t., at 5, ilighbarr ark, " ry.: 0, Geo. 1‘" KERILY—On. the 21st inst., at Brixton, , 4 Q. ... e ori ut 19, 29, and 21, Bishopsgate-strevt, gee "Q•,or. Is WooDIN.--On the 22d inst., at Southampton, .0/4 Woodin, retired Commander R.N., aged 71.____..-------- _____-- $ P Loud • --------- AgAN9 ;)" en: PrinzJd and P.lblished Dy fve of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at Vin Stls Strani, in the Precinct of the gavot at the —sl9liclay, January 251 1 86 i, •